Essay: The 2023 BRICS Summit was a bunch of hoopla. We still don't live in a multipolar world.
According to Investopedia, BRICS refers to certain emerging market countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and more—that seek to establish deeper ties between member nations and cooperate on economic expansion, including trade. The countries act as a counterbalance to traditional Western influence.[2]
In terms of countries each countries GNP and the adding of the GNP of countries that are allies of the United States or lean to the United States as opposed to countries that are allies of China or lean towards China, the U.S. holds an advantage in terms of economical dominance and this state of affairs could continue for the foreseeable future (See: The US retains the economic advantage in its rivalry with China. America and its allies remain more united and economically powerful than Beijing’s group of allies, Financial Times, November 29, 2023).
Question: Was the 2023 BRICS Summit significant or a bunch of hoopla?
Contents
- 1 2023 BRICS Summit was a bunch of hoopla. The BRICS are a farce.
- 2 The BRICS’ New Development Bank headquarters in Shanghai, China
- 3 The myth of multipolarity. What do the terms unipolar, bipolar and multipolar mean as far as international relations?
- 4 Why did so many self-declared international relations experts miserably fail concerning their multipolar fantasy?
- 5 User: Conservative's international relations essays
- 6 References
2023 BRICS Summit was a bunch of hoopla. The BRICS are a farce.
Videos
- The BRICS Summit: Significant or Hoopla?, 2023 video
- The BRICS Are a Joke, video
- Brics: The G-7 Economic Alliance’s Rival, Explained | WSJ
- BRICS: Emerging counterweight in a multipolar world? | DW Analysis
- Can the BRICS Dethrone the US Dollar?, Bloomberg Television, 2023
- Why the BRICS will fail!, Economics in Action, 2023 - video
- China’s Evil BRICS Plan: India & Brazil Push Back Against Xi’s Bid To Expand Grouping, 2023
- Brazil and India seem lukewarm about the enlargement of BRICS, strategist says, 2023
- Member Countries Push Back China's Attempts to Hijack BRICS, Palki Sharma, 2023
Articles
- BRICS Shows It’s Little More Than a Meaningless Acronym, August 25, 2023
- The BRICS are better off disbanding than expanding, Reuters, 2023
- A BRICS currency replacing the dollar is a ‘ridiculous’ idea, says the top economist who named the group—unless China and India become allies, Fortune magazine, 2023
- Can BRICS dethrone the US dollar? It’ll be an uphill climb, experts say, Al Jazeera, 2023
- Why single BRICS currency is impracticable by Franco Macchiavelli
- Gold-backed BRICS currency prospects weaken ahead of G20 summit as China-India rift widens, Kitco (Gold company), 2023
- Argentina Shows the Limits of BRICS’ De-Dollarization Dreams, World Politics Review, 2023
The BRICS’ New Development Bank headquarters in Shanghai, China
The BRICS’ New Development Bank headquarters is in Shanghai, China.
Colonel Douglas MacGregor said about China in the video Why China's Navy is a JOKE: "China has huge problems just holding itself together. So I think we should set China aside and understand that."[3] See: Skepticism about China remaining a global power
The myth of multipolarity. What do the terms unipolar, bipolar and multipolar mean as far as international relations?
Previously, I wrote the essays:
The essay below builds on the above essays.
As far as international international relations, the education website Unacademy.com defines a unipolar world thusly, "A unipolar world is when the majority of the world is dominated by a single state or nation's military and economic power, and social and cultural influence."
The military defeats of the Soviet Union and United States in Afghanistan and the Vietnam War help demonstrate that we don't live in a unipolar world. It is hard to be an occupier in a country that doesn't want you to be there - especially in an age of fourth generation warfare (Fourth generation warfare is warfare where there is a blurring of the separation between war/politics and combatants/civilians. 4GW wars are more decentralized in terms of their command and control). See also: Essay: Western, liberal dominance over the world is over
A multipolar world refers to a system in the world which power is distributed among multiple/many states or blocs of states, rather than being concentrated in one (unipolar) or two (bipolar) dominant powers.[4]
The material below argues that the world is not presently multipolar.
- The Myth of Multipolarity, American Power’s Staying Power, Foreign Affairs, 2023
- The multipolarity thesis: the verdict of Unhedged and Chartbook, Financial Times, October 12, 2023
- No, the World Is Not Multipolar, Foreign Affairs, September 22, 2023
- Multipolarity: What Is It Good For? (Discussion of the above Foreign Affairs article The Myth of Multipolarity, 2023)
Why did so many self-declared international relations experts miserably fail concerning their multipolar fantasy?
The 4 reasons why so many self-declared international relations experts miserably failed concerning their multipolar fantasy is given in the essay below:
User: Conservative's international relations essays
General
- The myth of multipolarity. What do the terms unipolar, bipolar and multipolar mean as far as international relations?
- The wreck of the HMS Multipolar World Fantasy - Humor
- What drives Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin?
- Why has the West been so successful?
The United States
- The United States will be the leading power in the world for the foreseeable future
- Is the USA an economic powerhouse and juggernaut?
China
Russia
War in Ukraine
- The SPECIFIC MONTH OF APRIL 2022 was not a pivotal point in politics that will affect politics for 30 years (A Minor dispute with a Conservapedian about the war in Ukraine)
Give me liberty, or give me death!
References
- ↑ China's skyscraper boom is over
- ↑ BRICS: Acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, Investopedia
- ↑ Why China's Navy is a JOKE
- ↑ What is the meaning of multipolar?
- ↑ Trump to West Point grads: 'We are ending the era of endless wars', Reuters, June 13, 2022
- ↑ Trump to West Point grads: 'We are ending the era of endless wars', Reuters, June 13, 2022
- ↑ Should You Be Bullish on America?
- ↑ Countries With The Most Diverse Economies
- ↑ China Slowdown Means It May Never Overtake US Economy, Forecast Shows, Bloomberg News, September 5, 2023
- ↑ What’s going on with China’s stock market?, MarketPlace.org